Category: Bites

If you haven’t already, check out Mac Thompson at his spiffy new Moveable Type digs:

The Dodgeblogium crew had identified signs that elder horrors are displeased with Auntie Beeb.

CalPundit got the cure for anybody suffering under the cloud o’ jet lag.

Asparagirl a chuckle out of the Forbes Fictional Fifteen, and indeed, so do I. It’s a list of the all-time richest fictional characters: Santa Claus tops the list, with his net worth calculated, rationally it seems to me, as infinite…

Galt points us to an absolutely priceless declaration by the administrator of a discussion forum on Democratic Underground.com that his little piece of the web is now a First Amendment-free zone. Now, of course he has every right to do exactly that, but wow, he sure did manage to make himself look silly in the process. (Also his right. God Bless America!)

I’ve ripped off Martin’s movie-quote routine twice in the past week or so now, so the least I can do is give him random link.

Meryl provides us with definitive “chickenhawk” argument, following the logic of those who say non-soldiers should not call for war to its (illogical) extreme. My personal favorite: “John Edward can’t talk to the dead unless he has first been dead (and I volunteer to help him achieve that state).” Now Meryl, be nice… nah, on second thought, don’t.

we love Glenn: Because he’s the kinda guy who uses the worlds “dang” and “dispositive” in the same paragraph.

Indepundit vs. Hesiod on New Jersey elections. Indepundit says: “Apparently, Hesiod believes it’s perfectly OK for a Democratic Governor to call off an election in order to preserve his party’s slim majority in the US Senate.” Will Hesiod just sit there and take that? Stay tuned.

Bob Skinner at Short Strings has good roundup on sources of information regarding depleted uranium weapons, and their alleged health impacts.

MSNBC is continuing their foray into weblogs, and has now established Central. They’ve got a fellow, Will Femia, doing a blog-on-blogs called Blogspotting, and are also providing a list of resources like Blogdex, Moveable Type, etc. More big media bloggin’ — cool.

Eugene Volokh is being shy about appearance on NPR bigwig talkshow Talk of The Nation yesterday, and hasn’t posted a link to the audio yet. So I will. (Amusingly, when I sent him a “go get ’em!” email, he replied with a thanks — during the live broadcast. One can assume, then, that the Prof. has little problem with the walking-and-chewing-gum thing; or perhaps taking on NPR guests just doesn’t require all that much cycle time.)

“IT’S A RECESSION, BUT BLACK CHILD POVERTY IS DOWN: Mickey Kaus credits welfare reform!”
In other news, the sun rose in the East today.

My of Peter Gabriel’s latest video is up at Blogcritics; check it out. And if you missed it, I also reviewed Joss Whedon’s new show Firefly over the weekend.

Ken Layne has found intriguing method of garnering respect from rude airline employees. Worth a shot; nothing else works.

Tom Freidman that 9/11 “may well be remembered for bringing some sobriety to the antiglobalization movement,” pointing to potential economic giants such as India and China as ardent globofans. Money quote: “[T]he most important reason why globalization is alive and well post-9/11 is that while pampered college students and academics in the West continue to debate about whether countries should globalize, the two biggest countries in the world, India and China

Hamid Karzai is now criticized by the Northern Alliance itself.

Dean’s the scoop on Google’s latest toy: Google News, which aggregates from 4,000 English-language sources.

Business Week reports that the U.S. Center for Disease Control supplied Iraq with ” two dozen viral and bacterial samples in the 1980s, including the plague, West Nile, and dengue fever.”
Whoops.

Daniel Davies finds in Saddam’s attempts at developing nukes opportunity for nostalgia: “I read in my evening newspaper that Saddam is definitely on the threshold of developing suitcase nukes, and that all he currently lacks is the necessary uranium … takes me back to my own schooldays…”
(Link via Tim Dunlop)